LSU Law’s Playwright/Professor Paul R. Baier invites you view the Boston, Massachusetts production of his play, “Father Chief Justice’: Edward Douglass White and the Constitution, adapted for a Boston audience sub nom. An Evening with Justice Holmes. Baier’s play is in its sixteenth year of continuous production, playing such extraordinary venues as the Coolidge Auditorium, Jefferson Building, The Library of Congress, Washington, D. C., the U.S. Fifth Circuit Judicial Conference, Ritz-Carlton, New Orleans, Louisiana’s Old State Capitol, LSU’s Rural Life Museum, and the theater of the Jean Lafitte National Historic Park in Thibodaux, Louisiana, birthplace of Chief Justice White.
Playwright/Director/Actor Paul R. Baier’s Boston performance features four members of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Justice Robert Cordy as Holmes, J., Justice Margot Botsford as Fanny Holmes, Justice Francis X. Spina as Justice Brandeis, and Justice Ralph Gants as Chief Justice White. The Louisiana Bar Foundation published a keepsake edition of An Evening with Justice Holmes. We invite you to view the e-book version. The Boston venue is the theater of the Social Law Library, America’s oldest law library, where Holmes wrote his lectures that culminated in his great work, The Common Law (1891). Mr. Justice Holmes, his Boston colleague Louis Brandeis, Mrs. Holmes, and Louisiana’s Great Chief Justice E. D. White all take the stage in Act III, “At Home.” Pull up a chair!
Or, if you prefer live production, the Library of Congress has posted its Coolidge Auditorium performance on You Tube, featuring a cast of Washington, D. C. notables, including Roberta Shaffer, Law Librarian of Congress as Fanny Holmes and Jacob A. Stein as Justice Holmes. Take a seat!
(photo 1: Library of Congress; photo 2: Thibodaux production)
